Ancestors in German Archives
Ancestors in German Archives

Author: Raymond S. Wright, III

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9780806318165

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This is an exhaustive guide to family history sources in German archives at every level of jurisdiction, public and private. Anyone searching for data about people who lived in Germany in the past need only determine which archives today have jurisdiction over the records that were created by church or state institutions.

State, Society and Memories of the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in the GDR
State, Society and Memories of the Uprising of 17 June 1953 in the GDR

Author: R. Millington

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1137403519

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Condemned as a fascist putsch in the East and praised as a 'people's uprising' in the West, the uprising of 17 June 1953 shook East Germany. Drawing on interviews and archive research, this book examines East German citizens' memories of the unrest and reflects on the nature of state power in the GDR.

Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989
Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989

Author: J. Madarász

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-08

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1403938369

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This extensively researched empirical analysis of the GDR in the years 1971-1989 challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this socialist society until 1987. The strength of the regime is shown to have been based on a continuously negotiated process of give-and-take involving major parts of the population.

Turning Season
Turning Season

Author: Michael Wagg

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1785317997

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In The Turning Season, Michael Wagg goes in search of hidden histories and footballing ghosts from before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He revisits the 14 clubs that made up the 1989 DDR-Oberliga, East Germany's top flight. From Aue in the Erzgebirge mountains to Rostock on the Baltic Sea, this quirky account of his whistle-stop tour is for fans who know that football clubs are the beating hearts of the places they play for. There are portraits of the lower levels as well as the big league, stories of then and now that celebrate the characters he met pitch-side. There's Mr Schmidt, who's found a magical fix for the scoreboard at Stahl Brandenburg; Karl Dr&össler, who captained Lokomotive Leipzig against Eusebio's Benfica; and the heroes of Magdeburg's European triumph, last seen dancing in white bath robes, now pulling in to a dusty car park by the River Elbe. The Turning Season turns its gaze on East German football's magnificent peculiarity, with 14 enchanting stories from a lost league in a country that disappeared.